"Where is the revolution of the humble," asks Cuban filmmaker Belkis Vega Belmonte

The filmmaker Belkis Vega Belmonte asked on her social networks where the revolution of the humble is, with the humble and for the humble.

Belkis recalled an old phrase uttered by the dictator Fidel Castro on April 16, 1961, and which has since been used as the regime's ideological flag.

In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis in the country, with families living in extreme poverty, a shortage of food and medicine that only worsens, and growing inflation, little remains of that social project that one day promised to dedicate its efforts to the most disadvantaged classes.

"Right now that and many other phrases are just manipulation slogans... the dream of a 'safe country' is just a nightmare," said an ICRT worker in the filmmaker's publication.

A Cuban from Spain pointed out that the revolution only lasted a short time, and then ended up establishing a totalitarian state. "The one-party dictatorship, with all its perversion and cynicism," he said.

Another émigré assured that the revolution of the humble does not exist and never did exist.

"I think it has been a project that has always needed humble people and more and more humble people, who can only think about what they are going to 'throw into the cauldron', and thus have a clear path to establish the farm: of the oligarchs, for the oligarchs and with the oligarchs," he stressed.

"We spent more than six decades doing acts in 23 and 12 and everything was in vain, broadcasts broadcast with that phrase, television, radio, for pleasure, and we invested in putting them on paper, also for pleasure. Anyway, as my deceased said "Mother, this story was a lie from the beginning, and I am telling it at the end," an old man stressed.

"The Revolution fulfilled its objective 100%. It made everyone very humble. He already said it: 'revolution of the humble'. In other words, everyone would be destined to be very humble," said a self-employed person ironically.

"There are people who go to bed without eating, and many others who no longer know what it is to have breakfast, many adolescents drink sweet rice water for breakfast, while the sugar lasts, and the pain becomes deeper when they are exposed to well-fed people, extremely well-fed," criticized a Havana woman.

Last December Belkis Vega Belmonte, who is also a professor at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños,asked the deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power to talk about misery where the majority of retirees live in Cuba.

"They are not worth medals, distinctions, diplomas or recognitions... or perhaps they are only worth doing a new performance of the play 'The Old Lady Shows Her Medals' by J.M. Barrie," he wrote on Facebook.

Vega Belmonte, one of Cuba's main documentary filmmakers and war correspondent, defended all the elderly Cubans who for years gave the best of themselves and now must survive with pensions that are not enough to cover their basic needs, while prices rise every day and the government does not guarantee basic necessities.